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Reading: John 11:32-44 (Amplified)
When Mary came
to the place where Jesus was and saw Him, she dropped down at His feet, saying
to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died." When
Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews who came with her also sobbing, He was
deeply moved in spirit and troubled. And He said, "Where have you laid him?"
They said to Him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept. The Jews said, "See how
tenderly He loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not He Who opened a blind
man's eyes have prevented this man from dying?" Now Jesus, again sighing
repeatedly and deeply disquieted, approached the tomb. It was a cave, and a
boulder lay against the entrance to close it. Jesus said, "Take away the
stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "But Lord, by this time
he is decaying and throws off an offensive odor, for he has been dead four
days!" Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would
believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the
stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Sovereign, I thank You that You
have heard Me. Yes, I know You always hear and listen to Me, but I have said
this on account of and for the benefit of the people standing around, so that
they may believe that You did send Me." When He had said this, He shouted with
a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" And out walked the man who had been dead,
his hands and feet wrapped in burial cloths, and with a burial napkin bound
around his face. Jesus said to them, "Free him of the burial wrappings and let
him go." |
